Word: vanished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jack's leaves you laughing all the way to the bank, you might want to save time and buy one while you're there. The "Buddha Money Mystery" makes coins appear, vanish and change, the "Chinese Wallet" will change your cash into a fortune, and the "Money Maker" cranks in blank paper and spits out dollars. Jack's can teach you how to put a cigarette through a quarter or how to place a half dollar through the neck of a bottle and out again. Budding magicians who want to learn the tricks of the trade can choose from Jack...
According to Samuel C. Cohen '00, council vice-president, when the system was found last December, "we made it very clear...that it would be treated as theft" were it to vanish a second time...
Brett Dewey, a Los Angeles television writer, recalls the moment he decided to go electric. "I see the mountains from my office window for a third of the year," he says. "The other two-thirds of the year, they vanish behind the smog." Last June he thought of the $75 a month in gas he could save by trading his 15-m.p.g. Toyota 4Runner for an EV1. "While I was debating," he recalls, "I looked out my window and the mountains were gone." Likewise, actors Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, president of the American Oceans Campaign, replaced their Ford Explorer...
...career as a Wall Street runner and is universally known as "Sandy," now faces the task of melding the freewheeling Salomon culture into the more cautious Travelers empire. Layoffs seem inevitable. Analysts estimate that as many as 2,000 overlapping jobs--mostly in "backshop" trade-clearing slots--could vanish from a total of 34,000 positions at Salomon and Smith Barney...
Rudenstine's timing for entering the national debate is not just fortuitous-it is necessary. If he and others do not protest the destruction of the status quo, the values he has advanced his entire life may vanish in a flurry of legislation...